baric period in u.s. history that surely someone tried to figure out how those individuals raised their children and the historians and scholars called me crazy. i was much younger when i first started, and they would say, listen, young lady, you are wasting your time, you're lucky to find grandchildren. and i can give you a few, but you're not going to find children, and i inherited from my dad stubbornness and i always thought i was right. i don't have thats much anymore, but i always thought i was right, so i didn't believe them, and i went ahead and called department of aging, state by state, each state tracks the aging population and i spoke to someone who spoke to someone who gave me a reference to a neighbor who knew of someone, right. so those were all the phone calls and i started from alabama and worked my way down, and as the world got around, i found about 35, 40 in the beginning. i was not smart enough to quit my job at the time and i eventually did quit my job, and traveled the country, and everyone i spoke to, except for one, had since died. and one person actually